Flint Hills Daybreak

Ok I have to get my fun in here too. It's really great to see all the Kansas landscape as of late.
I have been trying to get some type of morning sunrise shot in the flint hills for awhile now. All I can do is keep trying. I am attempting to do this with out any filters, such as a gnd. Just taking some multiple exposures and blending selected ones in ps. I have about 20 shots from this spot, 5 different sets of 4 exposures each as the sun was making its way over the hills. It really looked initially as if all were underexposed foreground and overexposed sunrise/sky.
This is a 2 exposure blend which after processing and tweaking the exposures slightly in the raw converter some more, (the sunrise was brought down -1.50 and the foreground up +.50 exposure) I managed to get something that looks close to what was there that morning. I seemed pleased with this.
Anyway, I seem to be rambling on a lot lately.

Xti
Canon 17-40L @ 40mm
f/16, .25 & .50
-2.0 & -1.0 exposure bias

Brad

Brad I'm really liking this, lots to keep the eye interested, great color and composition. I especially like the 3 hillsides sloping in from the right.

This is just superb, Brad. Great sky, perfect star burst from the sun, beautiful, lush green prairie, all nicely composed. Love it!

Brad, this is a very nice shot with pleasing colors. Good work!

I like the saturated greens of the hills and the way the sun has the star burst effect. Nice work blending the separate images together.

What a wonderful moment Brad. You've captured all the elements of a spectacular sunrise in the flint hills. Man, Ron's going to have to create a whole wing for Brad Mangas photography if you keep this up!